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...Square succumbed to a series of face-changings which sent traffic spinning around the subway kiosk in different directions almost every week. New stores opened and old ones closed, and the Square's second department sore came into existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Term Keeps Yard, Square on Their Toes | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...members of Democratic families. We were always allowed to march too, but they put us at the end of the line, so as not to contaminate the rest of them. Gradually we realized that we were always put at the end of the line and we got sort of sore about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...little boy was Paul Howard Douglas, who grew up to be a college professor, a famous economist, and a combat veteran himself. But he never got over being sort of sore at injustice, wherever he found it. He was from the beginning a rebel, a reformer, a crusader for the boys at the end of the line. The people of Chicago made him an alderman; in 1948 the voters of Illinois sent him to the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Last week, as the Wings took aim on the Rangers in Madison Square Garden, they were sore from two successive thumpings (1-0 and 2-1) by a team which had been playing dead for eight years. When the game was only 29 seconds old, the red light flashed over Detroit's goal and the Wings trailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreless Wonders | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

...right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards; why should he take offense at our meager mode of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: No More Rain-in-the-Face | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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